Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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